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The episode discusses the identity crisis in content design, focusing on the pressures of technical demands and automation.

🎧 Start listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, subscribe on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get 20% off workshops and courses at UX Content Collective. For content designers who want to upgrade their thinking, check out Advanced UX Content for Product . Oleksii Tkachenko has worked across software engineering, UX, and content design, which makes him unusually well-positioned to talk about what's happening in content design right now. In this episode, we talk about the growing identity crisis inside content design: the pressure to become more technical, the race to automate workflows, and the uncomfortable question sitting underneath all of it...what parts of the craft are actually worth keeping? We explore why so much AI discourse online feels detached from reality, why many companies still don't know what they want from content designers, and why the profession risks redefining itself around tools instead of outcomes. Enjoy! What we talked about: ✅ Why LinkedIn creates a distorted picture of AI adoption ✅ The three different types of companies hiring content designers right now ✅ Why "AI curiosity" means different things at different organizations ✅ The danger of…

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Stafford

Guest: Oleksii Tkachenko

Topics covered

• content design
• identity crisis
• AI discourse
• automation
• craft vs tools
• UX

Keywords

• content design
• identity crisis
• automation
• AI
• UX
• craft
• output optimization

Sponsors

UX Content Collective

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UX Content Collective, LinkedIn, AI

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